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H". HOYLE & B. SCARBOROUGH. MACHINE FOR QOMBING AND DRESSING-SILK OROTHER-FIBERS.

Patented Dec. 31, 1895.

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H. HOYLE & E. SCARBOROUGH. MACHINE FOR GOMBING AND DRESSING SILK 0ROTHBR'PIBERS.

Patented Dec. 3-1, 1895.

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H. HOYLE & E. SCARBOROUGH. MACHINE FOR GOMBING AND DRESSING'SILK 0ROTHERFIBBRS.

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H. HOYLE 80E. SCARBOROUGH. MACHINE FOR OOMBING AND DRESSING SILK.OE-OTHER FIBERS.

No. 552,440. I S Patented Dec. 31, 1895.

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ANDREW B GRMIAM. PNOTDUTHQ WASHINGTON. D C

NTTED STATES OFFICE.

PATENT MACHINE FOR COMBING AND DRESSING SILK OR OTHER FIBERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,440, dated December31, 1895.

A li ation fil d October 18, 1895. Serial No. 566,097. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HERBERT HOYLE and EDWIN SCARBOROUGH, subjects ofHer Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Halifax, in thecounty of York, England, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Machines for Oombing and Dressing Silk and other Fibers,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in machinery for combing anddressing silk, grass, and other fibers, the object being to constructapparatus which will thoroughly comb, clean, and dress silk and otherlike fibers without the careful attention and manual labor heretoforenecessary.

The invention consists of appliances for holding the ordinary dressingboards in which the fiber to be operated upon is placed, and fortraversing such boards along a frame in such a manner that the fiber isbrought into contact with traveling lashing-combs which effectuallylash, comb and clean the fiber, after which the dressing-boards arereleased from the holding device and the fiber can be removed and othercharged boards inserted.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 1 show a plan of theimproved machine, the machine being shown broken into two parts in orderto allow the drawings to be made on a larger scale, Fig. 1 being theleft-hand portion and Fig. 1 the right-hand portion. Fig. 2 is aleft-hand end elevation of the machine. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of themachine on line a b, Fig. 1. Fig. at is a side elevation of theright-hand end of the machine, showing the relative positions of thetraveling lashing-combs and the dressing-boards and casings. Fig. 5 is aright-hand end elevation of part of the apparatus, showing theappliances designed for raising or lowering the casings for thedressing-boards. Fig. 6 is a front elevation, 011 an enlarged scale, ofone of the casings for carrying a dressingboard, the operating-screw atone end being shown in section. Fig. 7 is an end elevation of Fig. 6,partly in section. Fig. 8 is a plan of Fig. 6, partly in section andwith the saddles around the screws removed.

The appliances for holding the dressingboards consist of a casing 1,Figs. 6, 7 and 8, within which is a nipping-bar 2 havi mg a facing ofsome gripping material 2, the bar being connected by links 3 3 with apusher-bar 4, so that when one end of the latter is operated or movedsidewise the nipping-bar 2 is forced outward and against thedressing-boards 2 Fig. 4c, the face 2 of the bar 2 giving the bar a goodgrip on the boards, (which hold the silk or fiber to be dressed, andwhen the other end of the pusher-bar 4 is acted upon the nipping-bar 2is drawn inward and the dressingboards are released. Each casingcontains two of these nipping-bars, one projecting from each face of thecasing, as shown in Fig. 7.

The casing containing the nipping-bars 2 has at each of its ends aprojecting tooth 5, which is received within a worm or screw 6 at eachside of the machine. Surrounding each screw or worm 6 is a saddle 7,Figs. 1, 1, 3, 4, and 6, for supporting the casing 1 while beingtraversed along the machine by means of the worms or screws 6, referredto. The saddle 7 acts as a support for the casings 1 as the tooth 5passes through a slot in one side of same, and it also acts as a guardfor the screw or worm 6.

The silk or fiber is placed in dressing-boards 2 as is customary, andeach board is placed between a pair of the casings 1, of which there area series, so as to provide for a number of dressing-boards being passedthrough the machine at one time. In this way there is first adressingboard, then a casing, then a dressing-board, and so on, as shownin Fig. 4.

As each casing 1 is put into position by causing the tooth 5 to engagewith the worms or screws 6, said casing 1 is carried forward, (adressing-board being between each two casings,) and as one end of thepusher-bar 4 comes in contact with and moves along an incline 8 formedon one of the saddles 7 at the entering end of the machine (see Fig. 1)the pusher-bar 4 is forced inward, and the links 3 are caused to forcethe nipping-bar 2 outward and against the dressing board, which isthereby tightly closed and held, the whole series of casings 1 1 anddressingboards 2 being placed in position as the Worms or screws 6rotate, so that the casings and dressing-boards are carried along thesaddles 7 continuously, the silk or fiber being combed and cleaned by aseries of endless comb-lags or card-flats 9 working over pulleys 10 10.In contact with the comb-lags or card-flats 9 is a cleaning-roller 11,which removes any spare fiber left in the comb-lags 9, brushes or fancyrollers 12 12 being employed on either side of the roller 11 for takingthe spare fiber from the cleaningrollers. The rollers 11 and 12 areprovided with suitable teeth for this purpose.

The fancy rollers 12 are carried in brackets 13, as shown, which aresupported or pivoted so that they maybe turned around for the purpose ofreaching the rollers for cleaning same. In Fig. at is shown a similarroller (here marked 12) turned around for this purpose. The casings anddressing-boards may be supposed to be traveling at the rate of about onefoot per minute; but the card-flats or comb-lags passing over thepulleys 10 and traveling in the same direction as the flats, as shown bythe arrows, Figs. 1 and 4:, are traveling about the rate of eleven feetper min ute. IIence, although traveling in the same direction, onaccount of the superior speed of the flats, the fiber carried by thedressingboards will be laid over in one direction and combed or cardedby said flats. In continuing their travel through the machine, thedressing-boards carrying the fibers now come under the action of asecond set of flats carried by the pulleys 10 10, which are traveling inthe opposite direction, as indicated by the arrows, Fig. 41, and at aspeed of about nine feet per minute. As soon as these flats operate onthe fiber, the latter is turned over so that its opposite side is actedupon by the teeth of the flats, and in this position it continues untilit reaches the end of the machine, when it passes under a card-clothedroller 11, which combs it still in the same direction, then under aroller 15 having rubber flaps 16, which folds the fiber over again inthe reverse direction, and, finally, it passes under a card-clothedroller 17, which combs it in the direction in which it was last lying.The object of the reversal of the combing as it passes through themachine is to enable the tufts of fiber to be thoroughly combedthroughout the thickness of same.

The endless chain of flats or lags are adjustable by means of thebrackets 18 18, which may be moved laterally in slots, (of which those,19, at one end of the machine are shown in Fig. 4-,) the object being toenable the slack to be taken up from the chains.

At the end of the machine, where the easings have now arrived, there isan incline 19 formed on the saddle 7; but on the opposite side to theincline S, and against this second incline, the other ends of thepusher-bars 4 come, whereby the links 3 are operated in the oppositedirections to their first movement, the nipping-bars 2 are drawn inwardand the dressing-boards released. The fiber may now be removed from theboards and turned, the combed portion being confined within thedressing-board and the uncombed portions left exposed and ready forsimilar treatment, which may be performed from the starting end of themachine, as hereinbefore described, the casings and dressing-boardsbeing carried to that end of the machine for the purpose; but themachine is preferably arranged in. duplicate, (or two story,) so as tosend the fiber through again from one end of the machine to the otherend without having to move it, after which it may be reversed, asdescribed, and the uncombed ends passed through the machine. To send thecasings through from the right-hand end back to the entering end saidcasings are lowered from the upper line of flats or combs 9 by means ofa table or bedplate 16, Fig. 5, which has a rising-and-fallin g motionimparted to it in guides 16 by means of the rod17 and cranked shaft 18.A cam or eccentric may take the place of the crank, it being onlynecessary that the table or plate 16 should alternately rise and fallfrom the level of the upper saddle 7 to the level of the lower one, thecasings 1 1 and boards being taken off the upper screws 6 by theattendant and placed in position on the lower screws 6, the table beingmerely employed to relieve the attendant of the weight of the easingsand boards and to bring them into line with the lower screws 6. Theteeth 5 of the casings may have small antifriction-runners placed intheir ends to lessen the friction as they pass along the screws 6. Thecasings and boards now pass in the reverse direction through themachine; but as the parts composing the combing devices on the underside are identical with those previously described it will not benecessary to enter into further description of same, except to say thatthe speed of the combs at what is now the entering end of the machine isthe same as the speed of the combs at the original entering end-via,eleven feet per minute-while the speed of the combs at what is now theexit end of the machine is the same as that of the first exit endviz.nine feet per minute the speed of the casings and boards remaining thesame. The combs also travel in opposite directions, as in the firstcase.

The machine is provided with a main driving-shaft 20, a pulley 21 onwhich drives, through a belt 22, a pulley 23. A gear-wheel 2% on theshaft of this pulley drives a gear 25 on another shaft. A spur-wheel 26on the shaft of the gear-wheel 2i drives in turn a gear-wheel 27 on theshaft of one of the pulleys 10, and this gear drives also a gear 28 onthe shaft of one of the pulleys 10. The gear 25 drives, through aspur-wheel 29, a gear 30 on the shaft of one of the lower pulleys 10,and the gear 30 drives a gear 31 on the shaft of one of the lowerpulleys 10. In this way the four sets of combs or flats are driven. Apulley 31 on the shaft of one of the pulleys 1O drives, through a belt32, a

pulley 33 on the cleaning-roller 11, and this roller drives, throughgears 31 35 35, the fancy rollers 12 12. A similar pulley 31 on theshaft of one of the pulleys 1O drives, through a belt 32, apulley 33 onthe cleaning roller 11, and this roller drives, through gears 34 35 35,the fancy rollers 12 12. The rollers 14 15 17 may be driven from agear-wheel 36, operated as hereinafter described, which drives a gear 37on a shaft 38, the gear 37 driving a gear 39, which drives a gear 40 onthe shaft of the roller 17. The shaft 38 may have at one end a pulley41, which drives, through a belt 42, a pulley 43 on the shaft of theroller 15, and a gear 44 on the other end of the shaft of said roller 15drives a gear 45 on the shaft of the roller 14. The worms or screws 6are driven from a spur-wheel 46, which drives a gear 46, carrying acrank-pin 46 to which are attached two rods 47 47 extending respectivelyto either end of the machine, the rod 47 a being attached to a crankpin48, which operates the gear 36, while the rod 47 is attached to acrank-pin 49 on a gearwheel 50, which drives in turn the gears 51 52 53,the latter being on a shaft 54, which carries bevel wheels 55 55,driving bevelwheels 56 56 on the lower screws 6 6, the upper screwsbeing driven by gear-wheels 57 57 58 58, secured to said upper and lowerscrews respectively.

hat we claim is- 1. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and incombination, dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings betweenwhich the dressing boards are placed, means carried by the casings forgripping the dressing boards, means for traversing the casings, andmeans for combing the fibers during the traverse of the casings,substantially as described.

2. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination,dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which thedressing boards are placed, nipping bars carried by the casings, meansfor projecting the nipping bars forward to hold the dressing boardsbetween the casings, means for causing the nipping bars to be withdrawn,an endless chain of combs to which the fibers are subjected, and meansfor operating the combs substantially as described.

3. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination,dressing boards for holding the fiber, casings between which thedressing boards are placed nipping bars and pusher bars carried by thecasings, links connecting the nipping bars and pusher bars, means fortraversing said casings, means for combing the fibers during thetraverse of the casings, and means for operating the pusher bars tocause the dressing boards to be held or released, substantially asdescribed.

4. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination,dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which thedressing boards are placed, means carried by the casings for grippingthe dressing boards, screws carried by the machine, teeth carried by thecasings engaging with said screws, means for supporting the casings,means for rotating the screws, means for combing the fibers during thetraverse of the casings, and means for operating the nipping bars so asto hold and release the dressing boards substantially as described.

5. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination,dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which thedressing boards are held, means carried by the casings for gripping thedressing boards, screws carried by the machine, means for operating thescrews, teeth carried by the casings engaging with said screws forsupporting the casings and protecting the screws, means carried by themachine for releasing the dressing boards, an endless chain of combs towhich the fibers are subjected, means for operating the combs and meansfor cleaning the combs substantially as described.

6. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination,dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which thedressing boards are held, a pair of screws carried by the machine, meanscarried by the casings for engaging with the screws, means for operatingthe latter, means for combing the fiber during the traverse of thecasings, a table at the end of the machine on which the casings aredelivered, means for raising and lowering said table, a second pair ofscrews beneath the first pair, means for operating same in the reversedirection such screws being adapted to carry the casings back throughthe machine and means for combing the fibers in the opposite directionas they are carried through the machine by the second set of screws;substantially as described.

7. In a machine for combing and dressing fibers and in combination,dressing boards for holding the fibers, casings between which thedressing boards are held, a pair of screws carried by the machine, meanscarried by the casings for engaging with the screws, means for operatingthe latter and means for combing the fibers during the traverse of thecasings first in one direction and then in the other substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

HERBERT HOYLE. EDWIN SCARBOROUGH. Vitnesses:

J. BRIERLY HOWARD, GERVASE APPLEYARD.

